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Cancer

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician who has been asked to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 12 January 2006:"As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking how many people died from (a) prostate cancer, (b) breast cancer, (c) bowel cancer, (d) lung cancer and (e) all other cancers in each of the last 10 years. (41167)""The latest year for which data are available is 2004. Figures for deaths from cancer by site are shown in the attached table for each year from 1995 to 2004."

Number of deaths from cancer by site, England and Wales, 1995 to 2004(3)
Calendaryear	(a) prostate	(b) breast	(c) bowel	(d)lung	(e) other cancer site
1995	8,866	12,623	15,749	31,627	70,293
1996	8,742	12,246	15.447	30:S10	70.214
1997	8.523	12.047	15,219	29,976	69.882
1998	8.573	11.835	14,984	30,199	70,738
1999	8,533	11.670	14,607	29,493	69.832
2000	8.293	11,433	14,236	29,029	69,695
2001	8,912	11,638	14,142	28,728	72.419
2002	8.973	11.557	14,275	28,806	73.166
2003	9.166	11,276	14.051	28.765	72.697
2004	9.169	11,031	14,171	28,328	72,157
(3) The cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) for the years 1995 to 2000, and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) for 2001 onwards. The codes used are listed as follows: Malignant neoplasm of prostate—ICD-9 185; ICD-10 C61; Malignant neoplasm of breast—ICD-9 174–175; ICD-10 C50; Malignant neoplasm of colon and rectum—ICD-9 153/154; ICD-10 C18-C21; Malignant neoplasm of trachea, bronchus and lung—ICD-9 162; ICD-10 C33-C34; Other cancer sites—ICD-9 140–208 excluding the above codes; ICD-10 C00-C97 excluding the above codes.
(4) Figures are based on deaths occurring in each calendar year.
(5) Figures include deaths in males as well as females.
(6) The introduction of ICD-10 for coding cause of death in 2001 means that data for cancer are not completely comparable with data for years before this date. The data should therefore be interpreted with caution. The effect of the change in classification in 2001 on deaths from cancer by site is described in an article published in August 2004
(7) .
(8) Brock A. Griffiths C. Rooney C (2004) The effect of the introduction of ICD-10 on cancer mortality trends in England and Wales. Health Statistics Quarterly 23. 7–17.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

41167; 441 c761-3W

Session

2005-06

Subjects

Death Breast cancer Cancer Diseases Prostate cancer Lung cancer Mortality rates Bowel cancer

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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